Before World War Two, Vietnam was part of the French empire and when World War Two started it had been taken over by Japanese when the Japanese people retreated the people of Vietnam had an opportunity to take back Vietnam and create their own establishment of Government lead by Ho Chi Minh then after the war allies gave back South Vietnam to the French while North Vietnam was left in the hands of the non-communist Chinese, the Chinese treated the North Vietnam people badly and that support for Ho Chi Minh grew then in 1946 the Chinese left North Vietnam which left it to Ho Chi Minh and he took over it then in October 1946, the French claimed that they would take over North Vietnam, in November 1946, the French bombed Haiphong and killed over
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Kennedy has been shot and killed and Nixon has been elected as president to take his place, he meets at a news conference and he says the Vietnam war Is coming to a “conclusion as a result of the plan that we instituted” then on June at a conference he said that the United States would be following a new program called “Vietnamization” this program was for South Vietnam they had to grow their forces so the United States could withdraw from the war and return home in the United States, president Richard Nixon stated in his speech that he already issued that 60,000 U.S. troops were to be withdrawn from the war (History.com staff, 2009);moreover, he would supply South Vietnam with modern weaponry and advisory effort while the “Vietnamization” program was in effect, in April 1970 Nixon ordered the U.S. and South Vietnam troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia this lead to multiple anti-war protest around the world as Nixon promised the war would be ending it also caused four protest killed by the national guard but still the fighting continued and in 1972 North Vietnam launched a huge invasion against South Vietnam but South Vietnam prevailed with the help of U.S. air support then in 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed and all the U.S. troops were withdrawn but both Vietnam sides still fought until Saigon fell under the communist (History.com Staff, …show more content…
soldiers killed in the Vietnam war, and over tens of thousands were wounded and the bombings of both South and North left both sides with health problems because of the herbicides used in the bombs like agent orange while the Vietnam war looked successful its was effecting the United States soldiers leaving war scars and PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) (The Aftermath of the war, N/D);consequently, the United States has paid over 168 billion dollars because of the Vietnam war also the war allowed citizens over the age of 18 to vote and be forced to be drafted into the war (The Aftermath of the war, N/D); accordingly, American soldiers that were in the Vietnam war were drastically changed when they came back to America some were so serious it seemed like suicide was the only option to release the stress and some were controllable, American soldiers sought for help from professional people often the American soldiers fought against each-other in the platoons most of these problems were because of what happened on the battlefield form seeing their closest friends blown up and killed in front of them to being constantly scared of never being able to go home again some were so afraid of the Vietcong that they often did not trust the
Kennedy has been shot and killed and Nixon has been elected as president to take his place, he meets at a news conference and he says the Vietnam war Is coming to a “conclusion as a result of the plan that we instituted” then on June at a conference he said that the United States would be following a new program called “Vietnamization” this program was for South Vietnam they had to grow their forces so the United States could withdraw from the war and return home in the United States, president Richard Nixon stated in his speech that he already issued that 60,000 U.S. troops were to be withdrawn from the war (History.com staff, 2009);moreover, he would supply South Vietnam with modern weaponry and advisory effort while the “Vietnamization” program was in effect, in April 1970 Nixon ordered the U.S. and South Vietnam troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia this lead to multiple anti-war protest around the world as Nixon promised the war would be ending it also caused four protest killed by the national guard but still the fighting continued and in 1972 North Vietnam launched a huge invasion against South Vietnam but South Vietnam prevailed with the help of U.S. air support then in 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed and all the U.S. troops were withdrawn but both Vietnam sides still fought until Saigon fell under the communist (History.com Staff, …show more content…
soldiers killed in the Vietnam war, and over tens of thousands were wounded and the bombings of both South and North left both sides with health problems because of the herbicides used in the bombs like agent orange while the Vietnam war looked successful its was effecting the United States soldiers leaving war scars and PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) (The Aftermath of the war, N/D);consequently, the United States has paid over 168 billion dollars because of the Vietnam war also the war allowed citizens over the age of 18 to vote and be forced to be drafted into the war (The Aftermath of the war, N/D); accordingly, American soldiers that were in the Vietnam war were drastically changed when they came back to America some were so serious it seemed like suicide was the only option to release the stress and some were controllable, American soldiers sought for help from professional people often the American soldiers fought against each-other in the platoons most of these problems were because of what happened on the battlefield form seeing their closest friends blown up and killed in front of them to being constantly scared of never being able to go home again some were so afraid of the Vietcong that they often did not trust the